Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Excellence always sells.